Pembrokeshire pupils who hold a school transport travel pass are being asked to retain their 2019-20 pass for use during the upcoming 2020-21 academic year.

Normally Pembrokeshire County Council would send out a new school transport travel pass to every pupil who uses school transport during the summer holidays.

That has not been possible this summer.

The Council will only be issuing new passes to those pupils moving into Year 7 and any new primary school pupils requiring transport.

However, if passes have become ineligible the Council will replace these and waive the normal £5 replacement fee.

Please note that this does not apply to concessionary passes and they need to be re-applied for each year as normal.

But, with a reduction in capacity on vehicles, there is less space available than normal and the Authority may not be able to issue concessionary passes on all routes before the start of the new term.

Parents are urged not to send their children to travel on transport without a valid pass as drivers will have no choice but to refuse them travel.

The Council will be surveying numbers of pupils travelling over the first few weeks of new academic year and will issue further concessionary passes as soon as they are sure there is sufficient capacity on the vehicles.

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